Events

The Bard College Conservatory of Music presents the popular series, Conservatory Concerts and Lectures. Performances and master classes feature faculty members and students of The Bard College Conservatory of Music and are free and open to the public.

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"Beethoven and the Radio"

A lecture by Dr. Daniel Chua, head of the School of Humanities, Hong Kong University, and currently Visiting Professor of Music History at Yale University

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Daniel K. L. Chua earned his doctorate in musicology from the University of Cambridge and is currently professor of music at the University of Hong Kong, where he heads the School of Humanities. He was previously a fellow and the director of studies at St John’s College, Cambridge, and professor of music theory and analysis at King’s College, London. Professor Chua was a Henry Fellow at Harvard and is the recipient of the 2004 Royal Musical Association’s Dent Medal. He has written widely on music, from Monteverdi to Stravinsky; his publications include The “Galitzin” Quartets of Beethoven (Princeton, 1995), Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (Cambridge, 1999), “Rioting with Stravinsky: A Particular Analysis of the Rite of Spring” (in Musical Analysis, 2007), “Beethoven’s Other Humanism” (in Journal of the American Musicological Society, 2009), and “Listening to the Self: The Shawshank Redemption and the Technology of Music” (in 19th-Century Music, 2011). He is currently working on a monograph entitled “Beethoven and Freedom.”

Bardian Ensemble

Monday, April 6, 2015

Please join the Bardian Ensemble and guest artists Dawn Upshaw and Kayo Iwama in an evening of chamber music. The program will open with selections from Alban Berg’s “Sieben Frühe Lieder” followed by a rarely heard arrangement by Berg himself of “Hier is Friede” from the Altenburg Lieder for piano trio and harmonium.Hornist Julie Landsman will join for Franz Schubert’s ”Auf Dem Strom”, and the program will conclude with the beloved Piano Quartet in E flat, opus 47 by Robert Schumann.

First Songs: Dawn Upshaw and the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program at the Morgan Library

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Dawn Upshaw, internationally renowned soprano and Bard Vocal Arts Program artistic director, will perform with pianist and Bard faculty Kayo Iwama, the singers of the program, and the Bard Conservatory Collaborative Piano Fellows. The concert will feature the world premiere of Garden Songs by the acclaimed Argentinian composer Pablo Ortiz on the poetry of Louise Gluck, and written for Dawn Upshaw. The program will also include new and recent works by Kyle Gann (Your Staccato Ways), Shawn Jaeger (Two Songs from The Cold Pane), Matthew Schickele (Since 1500), and Bard composer Tamzin Elliott (When Vera), among others.Morgan Library, 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016Sponsored by: Bard Conservatory Graduate Vocal Arts Program.

First Songs: Dawn Upshaw and the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program at Longy School

Sunday, April 19, 2015

Dawn Upshaw, internationally renowned soprano and Bard Vocal Arts Program artistic director, will perform with pianist and Bard faculty Kayo Iwama, the singers of the program, and the Bard Conservatory Collaborative Piano Fellows. The concert will feature the world premiere of Garden Songs by the acclaimed Argentinian composer Pablo Ortiz on the poetry of Louise Gluck, and written for Dawn Upshaw. The program will also include new and recent works by Shawn Jaeger and Bard composer Tamzin Elliott, among others.

The US premiere of "Dancing Morning Sunlight" will take place two days earlier when we play it at Brown on April 24. It was composed in 2014 and received its world premiere by the National Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan. A video (in Chinese) about the premiere can be viewed at http://youtu.be/GEfDX8-t178Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater